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Monday, 23 February 2026

• Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight
  thenevadaindependent.com · Discuss

• IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL
  zerohedge.com · Discuss

• Stop Killing Games update says EU petition advances
  videocardz.com · Discuss

• SIM (YC X25) Is Hiring the Best Engineers in San Francisco
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II
  colino.net · Discuss

• "Car Wash" test with 53 models
  opper.ai · Discuss

• UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A
  forums.atariage.com · Discuss

• India's VIP culture is out of control
  economist.com · Discuss

• A lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and lower costs
  techradar.com · Discuss

• Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras
  techcrunch.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Shibuya – A High-Performance WAF in Rust with eBPF and ML Engine
  ghostklan.com · Discuss

• US Gov Deploys Grok as Nutrition Bot, It Advises for Rectal Use of Vegetables
  futurism.com · Discuss

• Writing code is cheap now
  simonwillison.net · Discuss

• Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries
  linguabase.org · Discuss

• What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust
  smallcultfollowing.com · Discuss

• Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives
  old.reddit.com · Discuss

• Hadrius (YC W23) Is Hiring Designers Who Code
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Large study finds link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later
  text.npr.org · Discuss

• Silicon Valley can't import talent like before. So it's exporting jobs
  restofworld.org · Discuss

• First, They Came for the Journalists
  codastory.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Sowbot – open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS)
  sowbot.co.uk · Discuss

• AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
  arstechnica.com · Discuss

• Ed's Stratego Site
  edcollins.com · Discuss

• Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index
  anthropic.com · Discuss

• NASA uses Mars Helicopter's SoC for rover navigation upgrade
  theregister.com · Discuss

• The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)
  sabrinas.space · Discuss

• The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
  spectrum.ieee.org · Discuss

• How in the Hell Did Joann Fabrics Die While Best Buy Survived? It Wasn't Amazon
  governance.fyi · Discuss

• VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf]
  pub-fee113bb711e441db5c353d2d31abbb3.r2.dev · Discuss

• I Donut Believe – Presenting Third Party Results (Donut Lab)
  idonutbelieve.com · Discuss

• Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt
  blog.nytsoi.net · Discuss

• Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%
  old.reddit.com · Discuss

• Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026
  coinerella.com · Discuss

• Ladybird adopts Rust
  ladybird.org · Discuss

• SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025)
  iopscience.iop.org · Discuss

• QRTape – Audio Playback from Paper Tape with Computer Vision (2021)
  theresistornetwork.com · Discuss

• Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
  hackernews.love · Discuss

• What I Learned After Building 3 TV Apps Coming from Mobile
  dinkomarinac.dev · Discuss

• Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)
  llm-timeline.com · Discuss

• Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel
  chrisbrunet.com · Discuss

Sunday, 22 February 2026

• Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer
  magicalmushroom.com · Discuss

• Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
  ewtnnews.com · Discuss

• Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Interns in AI for Summer 2026 in Austria
  bitmovin.com · Discuss

• Ask HN: Have you ever cloned a cat?
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• How close are we to a vision for 2010?
  shkspr.mobi · Discuss

• Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation
  404media.co · Discuss

• What I learned designing a barebones UI engine
  madebymohammed.com · Discuss

• Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025
  andrewkchan.dev · Discuss

• Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet
  fmhy.net · Discuss

• The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler
  oxc.rs · Discuss

• Show HN: Lyra Kids – I built an AI bedtime storyteller for my daughters
  lyra.kids · Discuss

• $30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents
  yahoo.com · Discuss

• The power of daily rituals (2021)
  bbc.com · Discuss

• IT Staffing Firms (TCS, Cognizant, Infosis Underpay Developers by 80–100%
  h1bdatahub.com · Discuss

• Show HN: WARN Firehose – Every US layoff notice in one searchable database
  warnfirehose.com · Discuss

• Zuckerberg's "Fix" for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for All
  reclaimthenet.org · Discuss

• Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw
  discuss.ai.google.dev · Discuss

• Using the new bridges of FreeBSD 15
  blog.feld.me · Discuss

• Music Discovery
  secondtrack.co · Discuss

• Global Intelligence Crisis
  citriniresearch.com · Discuss

• Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable
  cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev · Discuss

• In World Without BlackBerry, Physical Keyboards on Phones Are Making a Comeback
  cnet.com · Discuss

• The Tears of Donald Knuth
  cacm.acm.org · Discuss

• The Geometry of Tostitos Scoops
  chip-tech-rob.zocomputer.io · Discuss

• Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Factory-built housing hasn't taken off in California
  latimes.com · Discuss

• Green Lumber Fallacy in Software Engineering
  chrisbehan.ca · Discuss

• America's most partisan voters hold the most voting power
  npr.org · Discuss

• An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia
  gizmodo.com · Discuss

• I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
  hawksley.org · Discuss

• Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok
  joinloops.org · Discuss

• Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS
  shuru.run · Discuss

• Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic
  hayzam.com · Discuss

• Hello Worg, the Org-Mode Community
  orgmode.org · Discuss

• Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser
  pieter.com · Discuss

• Altman on AI energy: it also takes 20 years of eating food to train a human
  old.reddit.com · Discuss

• Fungicide vinclozin causes disease via germline for 20 generations in rats
  pnas.org · Discuss

• Fix your tools
  ochagavia.nl · Discuss

• Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS
  voxjong.com · Discuss

• Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map
  live.xweather.com · Discuss

• We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them
  quesma.com · Discuss

• Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums
  popsci.com · Discuss

• Git's Magic Files
  nesbitt.io · Discuss

• Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Sewage Spill in the Potomac River
  vdh.virginia.gov · Discuss

• Attention Media ≠ Social Networks
  susam.net · Discuss

• Minions: Stripe's one-shot, end-to-end coding agents – Stripe Dot Dev Blog
  stripe.dev · Discuss

• What is a database transaction?
  planetscale.com · Discuss

• Postgres Is Your Friend. ORM Is Not
  hypha.pub · Discuss

Saturday, 21 February 2026

• Back to FreeBSD: Part 1
  hypha.pub · Discuss

• What's the best way to learn a new language?
  bbc.com · Discuss

• U.S. Cannot Legally Impose Tariffs Using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974
  ielp.worldtradelaw.net · Discuss

• Japanese Woodblock Print Search
  ukiyo-e.org · Discuss

• The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest – and AI Is the Hunter
  opennhp.org · Discuss

• A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P
  sambent.com · Discuss

• How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
  boristane.com · Discuss

• Are compilers deterministic?
  blog.onepatchdown.net · Discuss

• Who's liable when your AI agent burns down production?
  reading.sh · Discuss

• Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks
  science.org · Discuss

• Password managers less secure than promised
  ethz.ch · Discuss

• Why is Claude an Electron app?
  dbreunig.com · Discuss